How to Use abomination in a Sentence
abomination
noun- Some people view the sculpture as art while others see it as an abomination.
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What a waste of a good abomination.
—Dan Sheehan, Literary Hub, 12 Mar. 2021
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Their power play has been an abomination for a few years now.
—Arthur Staple, The Athletic, 12 Feb. 2025
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There’s no sense in trying to round the rough edges off of abomination.
—al, 4 Apr. 2021
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That’s quite an achievement even if the song is an abomination.
—Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 13 May 2021
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Yes, the end results are abominations, but there’s at least a lot less to get worked up about.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
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The hypocrisy and failures of our state leaders are an abomination.
—Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 21 May 2021
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The whole shebang, say purists, is nothing less than an abomination.
—Leanne Italie, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2023
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His regime was an abomination that deserved to fall, regardless of what comes next.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
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There’s a map like this for lots of American cities, this abomination of red lines.
—USA Today, 26 June 2023
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To witness millions living one step away from famine, while there is so much excess, is an abomination.
—Abby Maxman For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 16 May 2022
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From his pulpit Knox preached that female rule was an abomination in the eyes of God.
—Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 6 Apr. 2022
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But there can be none for such abominations as Processing or Go.
—Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Sep. 2023
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My biggest complaint is the god-awful abomination of a stem from Satori.
—James Huang, Outside Online, 25 Oct. 2022
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Those hairy abominations, that hairy one in the corner touching himself with his leather fingers, that’s a man?
—Dan Piepenbring, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2017
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Her physical body is not an abomination but a system that demands the meeting of its needs.
—Lorraine Berry, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
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After that abomination of a first quarter, the Celtics are lucky to be down by 11.
—Nicole Yang, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2022
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Woe rather to those that made the Holy an abomination, and extinguishable.
—John D. Hagen, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
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That abomination was four times deadlier than the one in Jacksonville.
—The Editors, National Review, 30 Aug. 2023
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Yes, the first season of Big Brother was an abomination.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 4 June 2026
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One speaker read aloud from the Bible—a bit about how a woman wearing men’s clothing was an abomination.
—Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
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The scars of that abomination are still etched in the religious divides of Ireland.
—Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Sep. 2017
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On par with that abomination of a Parking entrance in Love Park.
—Stephanie Farr, Philly.com, 14 June 2018
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No respectable woman would permit such an abomination.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 12 May 2026
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And that would be an abomination – an abuse of power, and punishment against the weakest, most fragile and youngest in our country.
—Ailsa Chang, NPR, 17 Apr. 2025
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Colleen Hoover’s BookTok reign is a game changer — and to some, an abomination.
—Meg Zukin, Vulture, 21 Dec. 2022
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The Super League is both an abomination and a recognition of what soccer is now.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2021
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The magnitude of the abomination almost forbids that it be mentioned in the same breath as any other horror.
—Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
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There are hundreds or thousands of recipes for duck a l’orange on the internet, and many of them use such abominations as marmalade or orange juice.
—Daniel Neman, sacbee, 26 June 2018
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There are plenty of innovations—some of them true abominations—in the works, all intended to shorten and hot up the game.
—Katherine A. Powers, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2018
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